Aledo Council Chambers, 200 Old Annetta Road
Council interviews municipal judge candidates and directs the city manager to open contract negotiations
A three-hour special meeting, almost all of it in closed session, produced one instruction.
The Aledo City Council met in special session June 8, 2026, at 4:30 p.m. at 200 Old Annetta Road with Mayor Shane Davis, Mayor Pro Tem Summer Jones and Councilmembers Ben Clark, Todd Covington, Matthew Poston and Melanie Allen present.
The council recessed into executive session at 5 p.m. for municipal court judge interviews under the personnel provisions of the Open Meetings Act and returned to open session at 7:30 p.m. It then instructed City Manager Candice Edmondson to initiate contract negotiations for a municipal court judge as discussed in executive session. The meeting adjourned at 7:35 p.m.
Sources: City of Aledo: approved minutes, June 8, 2026 (CivicClerk); City of Aledo: agenda, June 8, 2026 (CivicClerk); City of Aledo meetings portal
How this was sourced: Primary documents: the approved minutes and the posted agenda of the June 8, 2026 meeting on the city's CivicClerk portal. Every vote, number and name above appears in those documents; the Ledger did not review a recording of the meeting. Public commenters who are not officials are not named. Written Sept. 4, 2026, for the archive.